GCD Newsletter – Monday, July 4, 2022
Life, Liberty, and Happiness are Pursuing You
Life, Liberty, and Happiness are Pursuing You
I don’t mean to poke our British readers1, but in the United States, the Fourth of July is a big deal. In the second paragraph of The Declaration of Independence, we read the lines, “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
With respect to the “all men are created equal” line, may God forgive us for the ways these lines were not true when they were written, and may God help them to be more true in our future than they even are in the present.
I also want to mention something that encourages me about the last set of phrases, the ones about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As wonderful as it is to be able to pursue these things, the good news of the Christian message is actually much better than the opportunity to merely pursue life and liberty and happiness. The message of Christianity declares that life and liberty and happiness are pursuing you all of your days. Life, liberty, and happiness has a name: Jesus, the Son of God and Son of Man.
If you are in the United States, I hope you enjoy your freedom today. But more than the freedoms our country affords us, may we enjoy the happiness that comes from Jesus, “the Son of Man [who] came to seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10).
Last Week at GCDiscipleship.com
God Mends Broken Things by David McLemore | We are not mostly okay people with an occasional bad day. We are broken people with divine grace as our only hope. The good news is that hope can be found.
Hospitality: God’s Workroom for the Weak by Zach Barnhart | For those who feel overwhelmed, lacking, and ill-equipped to welcome others into your homes, Barnhart writes, I offer this encouragement: our greatest opportunity to glorify God comes not from a position of prowess but from a workroom of weakness.
How to Forgive by John Beeson | What resources of the heart might enable us to forgive those who have sinned against us? We need to know because forgiveness, we’re told in Scripture, is mandatory for a Christian.
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Benjamin Vrbicek, managing editor for Gospel-Centered Discipleship
Or, indeed, the British editor of this newsletter…